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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Fix queued SIGIO
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On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
>> The problem is really that SI_SIGIO is negative, but it should be positive
>> to make SI_FROMUSER return false on it.
>>
>> Changing it would unfortunately break binary compatibility. This patch
>

It would be better to change SI_SIGIO in all the
include/asm-*/siginfo.h files from -5 to __SI_CODE(__SI_SIGIO, -5)
__SI_SIGIO would become (6 << 16).
The code in arch/*/kernel/signal.c only copies the lower 16 bits to user
space. This means that the test SI_FROMKERNEL returns true and user space
still gets the same values as before.

The same trick is indeed used also in my POSIX timer patch.

Robert

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